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From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Bug 8535] USB input death then system freeze
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:18:24 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46A97210.1090605@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0707261022260.3529-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>

Alan Stern wrote:
> Tejun:
> 
> Please take a look at comment #50 in Bugzilla 8535:
> 
> 	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8535#c50
> 
> There have been several reports like this one recently of BUGs
> occurring in release_sysfs_dirent() during device unregistration.  
> Obviously a use-after-free issue, probably caused by a refcounting 
> error.
> 
> Is there already a patch available to fix it?

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/556682/raw

Does this patch fix the problem?

-- 
tejun

      reply	other threads:[~2007-07-27  4:18 UTC|newest]

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2007-07-26 14:28 ` [Bug 8535] USB input death then system freeze Alan Stern
2007-07-27  4:18   ` Tejun Heo [this message]

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